Tor Nightfire, July 2022. Hardcover. Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more. Do you like scary movies? Have you ever wondered why? Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She..... More
Knopf, October 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, John Huston, his greatest..... More
University of Texas Press, December 2002. Trade Paperback. Astaire and Rogers, Tracy and Hepburn. Just the mention of their names evokes the powerful chemistry between these screen couples, which utterly transcended the often formulaic films in which they appeared together. Indeed, watching the synergistic flow of energy between charismatic screen..... More
McFarland Publishing, January 1994. Oversized Hardcover. Certain lines define a movie. Marlene Dietrich in Morocco: "Anyone who has faith in me is a sucker." Too, there are lines that fit actor and character. Mae West in Im No Angel: "Im very quick in a slow way." Jane Fonda in California..... More
Critical Vision, July 2003. Trade Paperback. Hopping vampires, seductive spirits and giant predatory tongues! Tsui Hark's "A Chinese Ghost Story "in 1987 gave many Western viewers their first taste of supernatural thrills, Oriental style. Yet the film was a comparatively late entry in a well-established genre. From Sammo Hung's "Spooky..... More
Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers, April 2003. Hardcover. (Applause Books). The late Sir Alec Guinness, one of the great British actors of the 20th Century along with his fellow knights Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, was known for his ability to slip, chameleon-like, into his roles. His..... More
Vintage, November 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Methuen, 1983. Paper Back. Top book edge marked with pink. More
Cambridge University Press, January 2008. Paper Back. The Films of Joseph Losey examines the career of the expatriate director through a close analysis of five of his most important and challenging films. When his leftist politics made him a target of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, the..... More
Arlington House, January 1978. Oversized Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards, small section of spine-top chipped away; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket moderately worn at edges w/ chipping and open tears present; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure futher preservation. More
Arlington House Publishers, January 1981. Hardcover. Quarto in dustjacket with sunned spine with curled/worn edge and soiling. Flap not clipped. Yellow cloth covered boards with bumped corners & black lettering on spine. Top edge of boards darkened. Dust stained textblock top edge. [259 pp.]. More
Scribner, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on a tipped-in page by Mary-Louise Parker. More
McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 2006. Paper Back. On the TV screen as elsewhere, there is often more than meets the eye. For decades, television has offered not just entertainment, but observations--subtle and otherwise--on society. This book examines the cultural commentary contained in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, a show..... More
Dell, February 1984. Oversize Softcover. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine-length faintly creased from use; Pages free of markings; A great copy. More
Chrysalis Books Group, October 1999. Oversize Softcover. More
Hachette Books, September 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells--told by the bombshell herself. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the..... More
Harry N. Abrams, December 2003. Hardcover. This study is based on a candid and revealing series of interviews with Federico Fellini conducted the year before his death on 29th October 1993. Fellini, who directed a host of legendary films, including La Strada and La Dolce Vita, was an exuberant storyteller..... More
St Martins Press, March 1988. First American. Cloth. {7' x 10'} Small quarto. In dustjacket with edgewear and half-inch rough hewn tear at top of rear panel at spine. Occasional soiling to DJ recto. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering. First edition. [192 pp.]. More
University Press of Mississippi, July 2013. Hardcover. "Elisa Pezzotta's excellent Stanley Kubrick: Adapting the Sublime is by far the most sophisticated, innovative, and-crucially-cine-literate book I have read on the greatest auteur of adaptation." -Ian Hunter, Reader in Film Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom Although Stanley Kubrick adapted novels..... More
Fireflies Press / Decadent Editions, 2021. First Edition. Paper Back. 32mo. Purple cardstock cover with French folds. [224 pages]. More
Columbia Univ Pr, April 1990. Trade Paperback. All text clean and clear. One tiny smudge (smaller than a fingerprint) on the fore edge of the print block, else very good. More
Pearson, January 2013. Soft Cover. Crisp and clean. No markings whatsoever. More
Cityful Pr, August 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Wallflower Press, January 2005. Trade Paperback. Providing an introduction to an area of increasing undergraduate study, 'Music in Film' gives a critical overview of contemporary music whilst placing it within a historical and cultural context. A broad range of films are discussed from Hollywood through to Amerian independents and European..... More
Soft Skull Press, January 2013. Paper Back. Here is the complete inside story on the making of Psycho, the forerunner of all psychothrillers. Rebello takes us behind the scenes at the creation of one of cinema's boldest and most influential films. From Hitchcock's private files and from new in-depth interviews..... More
